Image by nasa1fan/MSFC via Flickr- Google FriendConnectposted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoCombustible ice sounds like it belongs in Star Trek--and from the photos it looks that way, too. While the reality isn't that extreme, this energy source does involve high-seas adventure, phase changes, an...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoThe 40,000-year-old site may hold the world's southernmost traces of early human life.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoThe original Giotto painting (L) and the same artwork under ultra-violet rays (R). Art restorers working in Florence’s Santa Croce church have shed new (ultraviolet) light on Giotto’s faded paintings, disc...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoAn experiment that detonated a bomb similar to the so-called "underwear bomber's" shows that the plane would have withstood the impact.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours ago2010 could be the "tipping point" where the number of babies born to minorities outnumber white babies.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoA long cooling period may have led to famine in Greenland and Iceland more than 1,000 years ago.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoNew evidence suggests that our human ancestors 2 million years ago were eaten by a large crocodile that lurked at the water's edge before closing its jaws on victims and drawing them under to their death. ...
- posted by (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 8 hours ago*Looking at the news today* it somewhat scares me what is happening on our planet. Working up the Past is one thing, looking to the Future another. Both suffer from the same phenomenon: anthropocentrism. ...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoNo, this is not a new model Jedi TIE Fighter -- it's the very real International Space Station passing across the field-of-view of a German Earth-watching satellite known as TerraSar-X . This radar image, ...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoI saw the movie, Hurt Locker, and wondered how that bomb suit could protect someone from death. Dvice has a great piece up that explains just that. The so-called explosive ordinance disposal suit has two l...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoSuicide is not just a human behavior -- and it can help us understand human suicide.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoJust in time for Spring training. This electronic shirt analyzes a baseball pitcher's throw. That could keep the athletes in good form and reduce injuries, which cost the MLB organization $54 million a yea...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 12 hours ago
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Thanks to the increasingly absurd, bought-and-paid for Supreme Court, corporations are now people but *real* people can be declared Orwellian 'un-persons' with but a... - posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoGrocery stores and consumers may want to rethink how they store their produce.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoIn Part One of our series, we looked at polar bears, hockey sticks, Medieval Warm Periods and Little Ice Ages, among other topics. Today our list includes water vapor, volcanoes, and CO2. As with Part I, I...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoIt was the blockbuster environmental deal of a lifetime: Florida Governor Charlie Crist announced in 2008 that the state was going to buy 180,000 acres of wetlands from United States Sugar Corporation. The...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoThe epic start-up drama surrounding the world's most powerful particle accelerator just took another painful twist.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoThere's flame in the trenches, but not the one Space Exploration Technologies was hoping for, as it counted down Tuesday afternoon to the first test-firing of its new Falcon 9 rocket. Two seconds before th...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 22 hours agoHEALTH - Canadian researchers have discovered a virus which causes a mild runny nose, but also kills cancer cells. Treatments using the virus are expected to start in 2012. The virus was first learned of ...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoThe Maldives government has banned shark fishing in its 35,000 square miles of sovereign waters.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThese ancient DNA samples could open the door to cloning long-extinct species.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA research team from IBM and Stanford announced that they have developed a new, inexpensive method for plastic recycling that could eliminate downcycling, resulting in higher quality products. One of the m...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoJewish sites are as much a part of Egypt's culture as Muslim mosques or Coptic churches, according to Egypt's Ministry of Culture.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA gas company building an underwater pipeline stumbled upon several wrecks, some dating back 800 years.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoRahim Jaffer, ex-Reform/Alliance/Con MP, anti-drug crusader, hubby to federal Con cabinet minister Helena "hell hole" Guergis : Busted for driving at nearly twice the legal speed limit, cocaine possession,...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNeva Morris, of Ames, Iowa, at age 114 years, 216 days, is now the oldest living American.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIn a covert operation, the team behind the Academy Award-winning documentary film "The Cove" has captured video footage that they say proves a popular California sushi bar illegally sold whale meat, accord...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe discovery could lead to new, powerful treatments for pain.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA new bill in South Dakota urges science teachers to frame global warming as a debate.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWith a little genetic engineering, tobacco and other plants can be harnessed to clean up environmental pollutants.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSmart phone malware could tap into your phone's microphone, GPS and even your battery.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWelcome to the 144th Carnival of Space! For those of you who have participated in this weekly cosmic party, you know the drill, but if you're a newcomer, prepare yourself for an experience beyond measure. ...
- posted by (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 day ago*My wife shoveling snow*. On March 9, 2010 she cleans the patio of our house near Granada. *Update March 10*: a warning is out for Thursday 11 and Friday 12 for more snow... ...
- posted by (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 day ago*Once Ubuntu Karmic or Mint Helena are* installed, it might happen that you are reminded to update the basic set-up. That occurs in an automagical way for you when you click 'Ok'. The first time this will...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA new VH1 show called “The Price of Beauty,” hosted by Jessica Simpson, will premiere soon. The theme of the show is the extreme measures that some women will endure to look beautiful. It’s a worthy subjec...
- posted by Lauren Effron at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWith disasters striking Haiti, Chile and most recently Turkey, it seems like there is no end in sight for the earthquake-weary. New evidence released from Ohio State University (OSU) shows that the 8.8-mag...
- posted by (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 2 days ago*Use the Pause button* to stop and copy some interesting links! Url movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=y2yJ_YoCUKs *I ran the DNS Test* on both Windows-7 (on Acer) and Mint-8+Wine (on my desktop PC). ...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSay what you like about President Obama, but at least he’s no coward. Otherwise, the last place he’d want to show his face is central Florida, ground zero for the next tsunami of job layoffs following the ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoUnderstanding the mechanics of this reptile's tongue could lead to advancement in prosthetic devices, sports equipment and more.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThousands of bodies are already cryonically frozen, waiting for faster computers and medical advances that will undo their cause of death.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoDo you have a really old Rottweiler? If so, you might wish to roll out your welcome mat for Dr. David J. Waters, who is launching "The Old Grey Muzzle Tour" this week. During the 23-day tour, Waters, who i...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAfrican-Americans are likely to pray before sleep, while more whites sleep with their pets, a poll finds.
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 days agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Any politician can cook up a run o' the mill recession, but it requires the GOP to revert an entire people to feudalism. Our status as vassal of China is the evidenc...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoLast month astrophysicists at Stanford's Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology presented their latest results from NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope's observations of supernova remna...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoCovering earthquakes is getting to be a tiring, depressing business lately. From the horrific ongoing tragedy in Haiti that started with a magnitude 7.0 tremor in January to strong quakes in Japan, Taiwan,...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe animated film Shark Tale from a few years ago featured a "car wash" for dirty marine dwellers. Now a new study in the journal Marine & Freshwater Research documents something very similar: fish cleanin...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA solar shock wave may have flung a particle to the outer solar system where it became part of a comet.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe book includes more than 200 never-before published letters divided into three categories.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThis has got to be one of the coolest ideas I've seen in a while: Miniature helicopters with LED lights flying in a pattern that creates a display in the air. Think of each helicopter acting as a pixel on ...
- posted by Josh Clark at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA $20 bag of dog food takes more than 4,000 gallons of water to make, in a show of how industry and the world can take water for granted.
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 days agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy I am told that I am fascinated with a mediocre albeit legendary movie. That is how *Casablanca*, a 1942 classic starring Humphrey Bogart (Rick Blaine), Ingrid Bergma...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 days agoOn Friday Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced the government was appointing Frank Iacobucci, a former Supreme Court judge with no legal hold over them, to determine what documents pertaining to the Af...
- posted by (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 2 days ago*Error rather than terror* could make the difference for us today. That at least is the conviction of *Lord Martin Rees*, a distinguished cosmologist and astronomer. He is a source where I turn to when I ...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoJohn Cook is the Brisbane-based founder and editor of SkepticalScience.com, probably the definitive resource on anti-global warming claims and the scientific responses to them. Regularly updated, the site ...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThis week, Discovery Earth is focusing on the science of climate change. To that end, to help clarify some of the misunderstandings and misrepresentations of a number of climate change issues, we will be l...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThere's no question that 2009 was an interesting year for the science and politics of climate change. Both this report and this one provided new syntheses of the issue, two of the most recent summaries of ...
- posted by James Williams at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoI’ve had lots of conversations about the weather, but never like this. I was sitting in the living room of Robert and Joanne Simpson – pioneers of meteorology - talking about clouds. They’d positioned thei...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoSince the magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit Chile last weekend, folks in the media have been talking a lot about how the Pacific Northwest could have a similar disaster. I'd like to join in this chorus as a sor...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Fondos para tu computadora - 3 days agoAunque todavía falta casi dos meses para el Día de las Madres, en Fotofrontera hemos iniciado una serie de entregas especiales para todos ustedes relacionadas con esta celebración tan especial. Para empeza...
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